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REV. DR.TALMAGE. TIIF. BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON. Text: “Unto one He gave Jive talents , to another two , and to another one; to every man according to his several ability .”— Matt xxv., 15 Many of the parables of Jesus Christ were more grapic in the times in which He lived than they are now, because circumstances have ko much changed. In olden times,when a man wanted to wreak a grudge upon his neighbor, after the farmer hud scattered the seed w heat over the field and was expecting the harvest, his avenger would go across the tame field with a sack full or the seed of darnel gr.-ss, scattering that seed all over the field, and of course it would sprout up and spoil the whole crop; and it was to that that Chr.st referred in the parabfo when He spoke of the tares being towmamong the wheat In this land our farms are feuced off. aud the wolves have been driven to the mountains, and we cannot fully under stand the meaning of the parable in regard to the shepherd and the lost sheep. But the parable from which 1 speak to-day is founded on something we all under stand It is built on money, an l that means the same in Jerusalem ai m New York. It means the same to the serf as to the Czar, and to the Chinese coolie as to the Emperor. Whether it is made out of bone or brass, or iron or copper, or gold or silver, it ►peaks all languages without a stammer, 'lhe parable of the text runs in thiswise: The owner of a large estate was about to leave home, and he bad some money that be wished properly invested, and so he called to gether his servants, and said: ‘*l am going away now, and I wish you would take this money and put it to the very l*est possible use, and when 1 come back re turn to me the interest.” To one man he gave SU44N), to others he gave lesser sums of money: to the least he gave SIBBO. He left home and was gone for years, and then re turned. On his arrival he was anxious to know about his wordiy affairs, and he called his servants together to report to him. “Let me know,” said he, “what have you been doing with my prop erty since 1 have been gone.” The man who had received the $9400 came up aud said: “I invested that money. I got good iuterest for it. I have in other ways rightly employed it; and here are slß,Bdo. You see 1 have doubled what you gave mo.” “That’s very good,” said the owner of the estate; “that’s grandly done. I admire your faithful ness and industry. I shall reward you Well done—well done.” Other servants ; came up with smaller accumulations. After a while, I see a man dragging himself along, with his head hanging. I know from the way he comes in that he is a lazy fellow. He comes up to the owner of the estate and ►ays: “Here are those $1,880.” “What!’’ says the owner of the property, “haven’t you made it accumulate anything;” “Nothing—nothing.” “Why, what have you been about all these years?” “Ob, I was nlraid that if I invested it, I might somehow lo eit. There are your $1880.” Many a mun started out with only a crown in his j'oeket, and achieved a fortune; but this fe>low of niy text,with SIBBO, has gained not one farthing. Instead of confessing his in dolence, he goes to work to berate his master, for indolence is most always im pudent and impertinent Os course, he loses his place and is discharged from the service. The owner who went out into a far country is Jesus Christ going from earth to heaven. The servant spoken of in tho text are members of the Church. The talents are our different qualifications of usefulness given in different proportions to different people. The coming back of the owner is the Lord Jesus returning at the judgment to make final settlement The raising of some of these men to be rulers over five or two cities, is the exaltation of the righteous at the last day, while the casting out of the idler is the expulsion of all those who have misimproved their privileges. Learn first from this subject,that becoming a Christian is merely going out to service. If you have any romantic idea about tiecom ing a Christian, 1 want now to scatter the romance. If you enter into the kingdom of Uod. it will be going into plain, practical, honest, continuous, persistent Christian work. I kuow there are a great many jieople who have fantastic and romantic notions about this Christian life, but he who serves God with all the energies of body, mind, and roul is a worthy servant, and he who do.s not ican unworthy servant. When the war trum pet sounds, all the Lord’s soldiers must march, however deep the snow may lie, or however fearful the odds against them. Under our Government we may have Colonels, and Captains, and Generals m time of peace, but in Ihe Church of God there is no peace until the last great victory shall have been achieved. But I have to tell you it is a voluntary ser vice. People are not brought into it as slaves wtre dragged from Africa. A young man goes to an artisan and bSipn “Kir, I want to learn your trade. I, by this indenture, yield myself to your care and service for the next four, or five, or seven years. I want you to be my master, and I want to be your servant.” Just so, if we come into the kingdom of God at all, we must come, saying to Christ: “Be Thou my master. 1 take Thy service for tune and for eternity. I choose it.’ It is a voluntary service. There is no drudgery in it. In our worldly callings sometimes our nerves get worn out, and our head aches, and our physical facul ties break down; but in this service of the Lufft Jesus, the harder a man works the bet ter be likes it, and a man in this audience who has been for forty years serving God en joys the employment better that when lie first rntored it The grandest honor that can ever be ties towed upon you, is to have Christ say to you on the last day: “Well done, good and faithful servau .”* also from this parable that different qualifications are given to different peopla The teacher lifts a blackboard, and he draws n diagram, in order that by that diagram he >nay impress the mind of the pupil with the truth that he has been uttering. And all the truths of this Bible are drawn out in the natural world as in a great diagram. Here Is an acre of ground that has ten talei ta. Under a little culture it yields * Henty bushels of wheat to the acre. Here is another piece of ground that has only one latent. You may plow it, and harrow it, find culture it, year after year, but it yields •i mere pittance. Bo here is a man with ten talents hi tbe way of retting good aud doing |;ood. lie soon, under Christian culture, Uiekis great harvests of faith and good work. I lere is another man who teems to have only «>ne talent, and you may put upon him the greatest spirit uni culture, but he yield* but little of the fruits of righteousness. You are to understand that there are different qualifications for differ ent individuals. There is a great deal of ruinous comparison when a man says: “Oh, If I only had that mao's faith, or that man * money, or that man's eloquence, how 1 would •ervtCici.*' Better take the faculty that God has given you and employ it in lhe right way. The rabbis used to Say, that before the stone and limber were brought to Jerusalem for the ’.Temple every stone and piece of timlier was marked; so that before they started for eerusalem the architects knew in what p!aus that |Articular piece of timber or stone •.Touid fit. And so 1 have to tell you we are •II marked for some one place in the great temple of the Lord, and do not let im Complain, saying: “ I would like to be the foundation atone or the cap stone.” l«t us go into the very P ace where Uod intends ns to bo, and tie Satisfied with tbe position. Your talent may lie in lirge worldly estate; your talent may tie In personal appearance: your talent may le In high social position; y »ur t.l *nt may lie in a s-iftpen or ehiquent toiuue; Imt */ ha lever \m the talent, it has been given only Ijt one purpose--practical use. You some -9 im«s find a man in the community of whom | on say: “He lias no talont at all ;”and ret that •nan may have a hundred talentc His one hundred talents may be shown in the item of taduraao* Poverty comes, and b« endures it; persecution comes, and be endorse it; sickness cornea, and he endures it Before men uod angels he is a specimen of Christian patience, and he is really illustrating the power of Christ's Gospel, and is doing as much for the Church, and more for the Church, than many more positively active. If you have one talent, use that; it you have teu talents, use them, satisfied with the fact that we all have different qualifica tions, and that the Lord decides whether we shall have one or whether we shall have tea. 1 learn also from this parable that the grace of God was attended to be accumula tive. When God plants an acoru. He means an oak, and when He plants a small amount of grace in the heart, tie intends it to be growthful and enlarge until it over shadows the w hole nature There are parents who, at the birth of each child lay aside on amount of money, investing it. expecting be accumulation and by compound interest that by the time the child shall come to mid life this small amount of money will be a for tune, showing how a small amount of money will roll up into a vast accumulation. Well, God seta aside a certain amount of grace for each one of His spiritual children at his birth, and it is to goou, and, as by compound in terest, accumulate, until it shall become an eternal fortune. Can it be possible that you have been acquainted with the Lord Jesus for ten, twenty, thirty yeaia, and that you do not love Uim more now thau you did before? Can it be that you have been cultured in the Lord’s vineyard, and that Christ finds ou you nothing but sour grapes? You may depeud upon it, if you do not use tbe talent that God gave you it will dwiudle. The rill that breaks from the hillside will either widen into a river or dry up. The brightest day started in the dim twilight. The strongest Christian man was once a weak Christian. Take the one talent and make it two; take five and make them ten; take ten and make them twenty. The grace of God was intended to be very accumulative. Again J learn from the text that infe riority of gifts is no excuse for indolence. This man, with the smallest amount iff money, came growling into the presence of the owner or the estate, as much as to say: “If you had given me S9IOO I would have brought SIB,BOO as well as this other man. You gave me only slßßo,and I hardly thought it was worth while to use it at all. Bo 1 hid it in a napkin and it produced no result. It’s because you didn't give me enough.” But inferiority of faculties is no excuse fin* indolence. lAt me say to the man who has the least qualifications, by the grace of God he may be made almost omnipotent. Hie merchant, whose cargoes come out from every island of the sea, and who, by one stroke of the pen, can change the whole face of American com merce, has not so much power as you mar have before God. in earnest, faithful and continuous prayer. You say you have no faculty. Do you not understand that you might this afternoon go into your place of prayer, aud kneel before God, and I bring down upon your soul, and the souls of others, a blessing so vast that it would take eternal ages to compute it? “Oh,” you say, “I haven’t fieetness of speech. 1 cant talk well. 1 can’t utter what I want to say.” My brother, can you not quote one passage of Scripture? Then, take that one passage of Scripture; carry it with you everywhere; quote it under all proper circumstances. With that oae passage of Scripture you may harvest a thousand souls for God. lam glad that the chief work of tho Church in this day is bring done by the men of one talent. Once in a while, when a great fortress is to be taken, God will bring out a great field-piece ami •ako all with the flrey hail of destruction. But common muskets do most of the hard fighting. It took only one Joshua, and the thousands of common troops, under him, to drive down the walls of cities, and, under wrathful strokes, to make nations fly like sparks from the anvil. It only took one Luther for Germany, oue Zwiiqclius for Swit/erlaud, one John kuox for Scotland, one Calvin for France, and one John Wesley for England Dorcas as certainly has a mission to serve as Paul has a mission to preach. Tbe two mites dropped by the widow into the poor-box will be as much applauded as the endowment of a college, which gets a man's name into the newspai>ers. The man who kindled the fire under the burnt offering in the ancient temple had a duty as imperative as that of tne high priest, in magnificent robes, walking into the Holy of Holies uuder the cloud of Jehovah's presence. Yes, the men with one talent are to save the world, or it will never he saved at all. The men with five or ten latent* are temptel to toil chiefly for thein iclv-.-s, to build up their own great uauij, and work for their own aggrandizement, and do nothing for the alleviation of the world's woes. The cedar of 1a ban on granti ng on the mountain seem* to hand down the itorms out of the heavens to the earth, but it bears no fruit, while some dwarf pear tree has more fruit on its branches than it can carry. Better to have one talent and nut it to full use than five hundred wickedly neglected. My subject teaches me that there is go ing to come a day of solemn settlement. W hen the old farmer of the text got home, he immediately called all the servants about him and said: “Here is the little account I have been keeping. I want to sea your ac count, and we w ill first compare them, and I’ll pay you what 1 owe you,aud you’ll pay me what you owe me. Let us have a settlement.” The day will come when the Lord Jesus Christ will appear, and will say to you: “What have you been doing with my property! What have you been doing with my facul ties? What have you been doing with what I gave you for accumulative purposes?” There will lie no escape from that settle ment. Sometimes you cannot get a settle ment with a roan, especially if he owes you. He post;>ones and procrastinates, and says: “I*ll see you next week,” or “I*ll see you nest month.” The fact is, he does not want to settle. But when the great day comes of which I am speaking, there will be noeacap* We will have to face all the bills. I have sometimes been amazed to see how an accountant will ruu up or down a long line of figure*. It 1 see tea or fifteen figures in a line, and I attempt to add them up, and I add them two or three times. 1 make them different each time. But 1 have admired the wav on accountant will take a long line of figures, and without a single mistake, and with great celerity, annouuce the aggregata Now, in the last great settlement, there will be a correct account presented. God has kept a long line of sins, a long line of broken Baobatbs, a long line of profane words, along line of discarded sacraments, a long line of misimproved privileges. They will alTbe added up, and before angels, and devils, and men, the aggregate will be announced. Oh, that will be the great day of settlement. I have to ask the question: “Am 1 ready for It?” It is of more importance to me to answer that question in regard to myself thau in regard to you: and it is of more importance for you to answer it in regard to yourself than in regard to me. Every man for himself on that day. Every woman for herself on that day. “If thou be wise, thou snalt be wise for thyself; if thou souraeat, thou alone shalt bear it” We are act to sneak of the last day as an occasion of yocifera tion—a great demonstration of power and pomp; but there will be ou that day, 1 think, a few moments of entire aitenew. I think a tremendous, an overwhelming silence. I think it will be such a silence os the earth never heard. It will be at the moment when all nations are listening for their doom. Y learn also from this j -arable of the text that our degrees of happmMa in heaven will tw graduated according to our degress of usefulness on earth. Several of tbe com mentators agree in making this parable tbe same oae as in Luke, where one man was made ruler over five cities end another mode ruler over two cities. Would it be fair and right that the professed Christian man who has lived very near the line between the world •«d the Church-the man who has often com promised his Christian character—tbe mao who lias never spoken out for God—tbe man who has never t«ea known as a Christian only oa communion days—the man whore great struggle has torn to see how much of the world be could get and yet win heaven—is it right to suppreu that man will have as grand and (lortouM s ee«t in heaven as tbe man who gave all his energise of l«dy, mind » and tool to the service of God I Tbe dying thief entered heaven, hut not with the same startling acclaim os that which greeted Paul, who hod gone under scorching*, end across dungeons, and throtmh maltreatments into the kingdom of glory. One star differ* from anther star in glory, and they who toil mightily for Christ on earth shall ha re a far greater reward tlion those who hare rendered only half a service. Pome of you are hastening oa toward tho reward of the righteous, i want to cheer ym np at the thought that there will be some kind at a reward waiting for you. There are Christian people in Uti* house who are very near beared. This week some of you may non out into the light of tint unset ting son. I saw a blind man going along the read with his staff, aud he kept pounding Um earth and then stamping with his foot. laaid to him: “What do you do that forf •'Oh,*' he said, “I can tell by the sound of the ground when I am near a dwelling.” And some of you con tell by tbe sound of your earthly pathway that reu ore coming near to your Father's house. I congratulate you. Oh. weather beaten voyager*, the storms are driving you into tho narbor. Just oa when you were looking for a friend, yon came up to the gates of his house, and you were talking with the servant, when vonr friend hoisted the window and shouted: “Come m! come is"* Jus* so, when you come to tbe gate of the future world, and you ore talking with death, the black porter at the gate, moth inks Christ will hoist the window and say: “Come in! come in! I will moke thee ruler over ten cities" In antici pation of that land I do not wonder that Augustus Toplady. the author of “Hock of Ages,” declared in his last- moment: “I have nothing more to war for; God has given me everything. Surely no man can live on earth after the glories llieve witnessed." Oh, my brothers and sister*, bow sweet it will be, after the long wilderness march, to get home. That was a bright moment for the tired dove in the time of the Deluge when it found ito way safely into tbe window of the ark. Hilts About Horses. It costs more to keep a poor horse then it does to keep * good one. Change the feed for your horses often enough to make them relish it Improper feeding is the cause of nine out of ten cases of sickness among horses. Every time you worry your horses you shorten their lives and days of usefulness. Sweat and dust cause the horse’s shoulders to gall. So do poor, ill-fitting collars. The temperature of water for horses is not so much of an object as the purity of it While it is best to have the water cool, it is more important to have it free from all impurities. Uann in foal should have exercise and l moderate work, aud under no circum stances should they be subjected to harsh treatment, nor should they ever be allowed to where they would be in danger of being frightened. The horse which can plough an acre while another horse is ploughing half an acre, or that which cau carry a load of passengers ten miles while another is going five,independent of all considera tions of amusement, taste, or what is called fancy, is absolutely worth twice as much to the owner as the other.' Affection cannot be pounded in. Kind treatment insures the affection of an ani mal, while rough treatment is sure to cause its hatred? It is alike dangerous to other horses and meu to spare'tho life of a glandered horse. Glanders is a highly contagious, incurable disease, and as a rule fatal in the human subject. When horses are suffering from the bites of Dies or stings of other insects, spouge the parts that cannot be pro tected by nets with water in which in sect powder has been mixed—a table spoonful to two gallons of water. Os two colts similar in disposition and sense, one may develop into a steady and valuable lamily horse, while the other may be vicious, treacherous, and unsafe - all because of a difference in the meu handling them. -Me/ica', Classics. Surfeited With Excitement and Game. Newkirk's Valley, in the town of Hur ley, N. T., is a favorite hunting ground, and scores of partridges, woodcock, and other game have been bagged there re cently. Hunter Dave hurniey had a rough sort of a timo in the valley. His bag waa plethoric with a diversity of game,.but he was not yet satisfied, when his dog, which was some little distance away, began harking fiercely and paw ing at the foot of a tree. Furnley went to reconnoitre, and a raccoon, cloaely followed by a wildcat, crossed his path. The coon sought refuge m a hole among some rocks, and the rat followed after, both animals being hotly pursued by the dog. The dog caught the eat when part way in the hole, and drawing it out, gave it an unmerciful shaking. The dog would, ig all probability, have killed the cat if another bjg cat had not appeared on the scene. The new-comer was an ugly brute and it bit and scratched the dog until, as Dave said, “it fairly guv in and rolled over dead. *' The hunter had left his gun on h : s game b»g when he followed the dog, so he had no weapon but his jackknife and a stout stick with which he laid blow after blow on the cats. The? turned simultane ously on the hunter and their sharp claws made ugly gashes in his flesh. 11 is coat wa< literally torn from his holy. At last the hunter tucceeded in plunging his knife in one of the wildcats and killed it. The other clung to him and bit and scratched until he got it by the throat and choked it to death.— Neat Turk Times. Hippophag? in New York. Up to a few years ago horse fiesh was an almost unknown commodity in Ameri can markets, but now it seems to have become very popular. Several shops in the French quarter of this city display steaks and roads cut from the dunks of horses, and in some restaurants this tretft is served as a regular course in a table d'hote dinner. A reporter went into a Hlcecker street butcher shop and asked the proprietor if he kept horeo fle-h. “Sartangmong, inUieur,” he replied. “All xe bong tong butchaire sell seharsc. Eet ees xe cream of ae meat, and xe dis tingay Frenchman always get eet.'* Going to a large ice chest he brought forth a quarter of what looked very much like venison. •'/at ees xe haree meat/’aiid he, “and re price eestwanty cant/, a pound.” The meat it a good deal darker than ordinary beef, and there seems to be a good sale. It is imported, so tho dealers say; but it la altrgether probable that the portioos of the caressaes of some of the overworked car horses serve at en trees or roasts on some table*. -AW York tun. A dairyman la Clayton, Mo., has a dog that can milk cows. SELECT SIFTINGS. Ambor is obtained by divers. Tho day was first divided into houiw in 293 B. C. The only place in which amber is found in paying quantities is said to exist in the Baltic Sea. If you can truthfully swear that you are not worth $250, you cannot bo com pelled to do jury duty. Tho Chinese word for “hash” is the longest and most difficult word to pro nouuce in the language. Previous to the introduction of water clocks into Homo, 158 11. C. ( tho hours were announced by public criers. A turkey gobbler at Darlington, 8.C., »at upon some guinea fowl egg*, hatched a brood of chickens, and is now taking proper care of them. A Scot, being shown Niagara Falls, was asked if he had seen aught so beauti ful and strange. He replied: “Wee!, for bonny, I’ll no say: but. ch raon, for queer, I ancesaw a peacock wi* a wooden leg at Peebles.” Tho native inhabitants of Washington at certain seasons of tho year eat large quantities of sailed herring to counteract the malaria of tho Potomac fiats. The fish is considered the best medicine to avert or cure chills. Drawing-room cars from the United States have been placed on the Chilian railway between Yalpariso and Santiago. It is found to be very difficult to prevent passengers lrom smoking in them, al though a smoking car has been added. A gentleman in Portland, Oregon, has succeeded in training a young elk to drive in harness. When he gets out on the trotting ground he is a sure victor in speed, as he cau frighten the horse that his steed is not fast enough to pass. The Atlanta Constitution tells of a love sick spider. He seems to be enamored of some married women, and spends his time working her name into his web. About fifty people have come to watch him. At last accounts he had completed the letters Mrs. W. W, W. V. While searching through his father’s effects Ticket Agent Moffett, of Knox ville, Tcnn., found a gourd over a hun dred years old. It contained many old papers, and among them a note from Davy Crockett, payable to William Moffett, for 1 shilling and 3 pence for a barrel of whisky and keg of cider. There recently died nt Flint, Mich., a man who had made careful preparation that nothing should lie said at his funeral that would not meet with his own ap proval. He had written his own funeral sermon, the hymns to be sung at his funeral, the words of consolation to his friends and the epitaph for his tomb stone. 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Ly it* o tlnmnan<lM of «w-, m lie* wor4 kind and of lon r standing have been cun-,L H»«rong L* mv faith m its edlt-ary thal I will send two hotlie* In-e. together with a valuaide treatise on thu iKm-tue- toaiiv sufferer, lilve K.i.-w* rj,j r. O. addrwwt. T. A. HLOCCM. M. C\. I*l Pearl St., N. V /O ft f%n ft Till th * kar*»*« **#«w. Th* It* rOMHKf. ST.ICXta I* a i-arfet rM.af eeM.Md " 40H UUI\ V* eaeldl-. »..%re...«,u.,,.c Mora *.sai*« WMIIS.-AaS D r* * Bra.4** tra»»war>. IttaatralM r,u:.,» frea a. J. Tevtt. Mm,, Haas. “Purgalory Bullrm.” Anexcifced Irishman lately rushed into a Boston drug having a “broken-up” appearance generally. “Be jabbers!” na yelled, “I’m all wrong tn’toirely. I want some shtuif to straighten me out. Some o* thim ‘Purgatory Bullets’ will fix me, I’m thinkin’. What d’ye tax for them?” “What do you mean?’ * asked the clerk. “ ‘Purgato ry Ballets,’ sor, or somethin’ ioike that, they call thim, ’ replied the man. “Sure I’m in purgatorv aire ady, with headache, and liver complaint, and bul shtoinoch, and tbe divil knows w hat HI.” Tho clerk passed out a vial of Dr t force's Pleanint Purgative Pel lets. and Pat went off contented. These little Pellets cure all derangements of Liver, stom ach and bowels. Sugar-coated, little larger than musturd seeds, "and pleasant to take. Druggists. The last census of India indicates a popula tion of 08,282,000. There are six million more males than female:). “('onnumption Can lie Cured. ’* Dr. J. S. Combs, Owenaville, Ohio, says: “I have given Scott’s Emulsion of God Liver Oil with Hypophosphites to four patients with better results than seemed possible with any remedy. AH were hereditary cases of Lung disease, and advanced to that stage when Coughs, pain in the chest, frequent breathing, frequent J)U!so. fever and Emacio tion. All thet-e cases have increased in weight from 10to28 lbs, and are not now needing any medicine ” The Emperor of Germany has bestowed the order or the Black Eagle ii|K»n bis wife. Conventional “Jtonon'* Itcaolntlon*. herean , The Monon Route (L. N. A. & C Ry. Co.) desires to make it known to the world at large that it forms the double con necting link of Pullman tourist travel be tween tho winter cities of Florida aud the summer resorts of the Northwest; and Whereas , Its “rapid transit” system is un surpassed, its elegant Pullman Buffet Sleep er and Chair car service l*etween Chicago tnd Louisville, Indianapolis ar*d Cincinnati tnequalled; and Whereas. Its rates are as low as the lowest: then be il Resolved, That in tho event of starting on a trip it is goirl jtolicy to consult with E. O. McCormick, Geu’l Pass. Agent Monon Route, Harah Bernhardt is only forty six years o age. Horn lli«* Karlh Itcnlly Move? Science says that it doe?, but we cannot help wondering sometimes if there isn’t some mistake« Unit it, when we st e howstubl>ornly certain old fogies cling to their musty and antiquated ideas. It believed once that consumption was incurable, and although it lias he*n clearly demonstrated that it is not, thousands of old timo physicians dos& their oyes and put their hands to their ears and refus»to abandon the theory. But for all that the world moves on, and Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery continues to res cue sufferers from consumptives’ gf*vet It is a sure cure for this dreaded disease, if taken in time. All scrofulous diseases—and eousuropti >n is included in the list—yield to it. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Thomp son’s Eye-water. 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Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 8, 1888, edition 1
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